Al-Ahram Weekly

Working the home
During Israel's invasion of the West Bank "A Forum on Cultural Practices in the Region" proceeded unhindered in Beirut. Palestinian participant Randa Shaath noted the ironies of such an unfortunately timed cultural triumph

'To Palestine'
There is a general tendency -- among peoples and nations -- to re-examine their history as well as their very existence. --read on--

Walking in between
By Nigel Ryan

Plain talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din

Poet, rebel, martyr
Thirty-eight years on, Salah Abdel-Sabour's poetic drama, The Tragedy of Al-Hallag, revived at El-Tali'a, has not dated. Nehad Selaiha ponders the reasons

Insiders outside the mainstream
Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih attends the first exhibition of outsider art to be staged by the Ministry of Culture

Briefs

Opera's big night
Arabs in Washington
Vernacular censure
Librarian archaeologists
Charity in Dubai
Narrating Yemen
London solidarity
Taher condemns
Intifada history

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		Al-Ahram Weekly Online 18 - 24 April 2002 Issue No.582
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